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Cornwall, Missouri

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1910 and the latest in 2000. It stands in Castor Township. It lies in ZIP code area 63645. It stands on Hackle Creek. The Survey maps it on the Higdon quadrangle.

Cornwall within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 20 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cornwall between 1994 and 2020, burning about 408 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 August 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation139671-06205-08302016-1149
30 July 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
3 May 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservation124052-06205-05032015-1412
22 May 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation137331-06205-05222016-1824
1 May 2020Misuse of fire by a minor2.3 acresMissouri Department of Conservation200545-06205-05012020-1338
5 April 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreMissouri Department of Conservation190377-06205-04052020-1715
5 April 2013Debris and open burning60 acresMark Twain National ForestCASTOR RIVER
29 April 2018Debris and open burning2.1 acresMissouri Department of Conservation176740-06205-04292018-1318

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Cornwall: 42 past producers, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Lead, Sulfur-Pyrite, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Buckeye MineCobalt, Copper, Iron, Lead, NickelPast Producer
Fredericktown DepositsLead, Nickel, Copper, Zinc, CobaltPast ProducerREPLACEMENT, DISSEMINATED SULFIDES.
Fredricktown ClaimCobalt, Nickel, Lead, GoldProducerAnglesite, Bornite, Covellite, Galena
Harry Clover PropertyManganese, Gold, Iron, Silver, TungstenPast Producer1917
Madison MineLead, Copper, Cobalt, Nickel, Iron, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Pyrite
Madison MineCobalt, Copper, Lead, Nickel, Sulfur-PyritePast Producer1847, 1944
MarshallLead, Cobalt, Copper, IronPast Producer
SchulteCopper, Lead, CobaltPast ProducerGalena
Shaft Number ThreeCobalt, Copper, LeadPast Producer
Shaft Number TwoCopper, Cobalt, LeadPast Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornwall in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Flash FloodCornwall-The 911 Call Center reported numerous events in Fredericktown including water over the roadway at Morley St and Villar St, City Lake Road, Buford Boulevard, Highway Z and North Chamber Drive, the 200 block of East College, and North Main Street. Southeast of town, Route F was closed where it meets Route V due to flooding. During the event, up to 7.75 inches of rain fell in Madison County.
May 2009Tornado (EF1)Cornwall-A tornado briefly touched down near the intersection of County roads 229 and 234. The tornado then traveled east along County road 234 for half a mile before lifting and dissipating. It blew down a few trees as well as numerous large tree limbs.
April 2015HailCornwall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Castor Station2.1 miles20
Hahns Mill4.1 miles20
Cobalt Village5.0 miles17
Klendike5.1 miles19
Cherokee Pass5.6 miles20
Millcreek5.8 miles17
Fredericktown5.8 miles17
Higdon5.9 miles20

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CornwallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q27985849The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 749480. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.